Improvisation and Social Aesthetics / Georgina Born, Eric Lewis, and William Straw, eds.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Improvisation, community, and social practice | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (353 pages): illustrations, musicContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822374015
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Contents:
After relational aesthetics : improvised music, the social, and (re)theorizing the aesthetic / Georgina Born -- Scripting social interaction : improvisation, performance, and Western "art" music / Nicholas Cook -- From the American civil rights movement to Mali : reflections on social aesthetics and improvisation / Ingrid Monson -- From network bands to ubiquitous computing : Rich Gold and the social aesthetics of interactivity / George E. Lewis -- The social aesthetics of swing in the 1940s : or the distribution of the non-sensible / David Brackett -- What is "great Black music"? The social aesthetics of the AACM in Paris / Eric Lewis -- Kenneth Goldsmith and uncreative improvisation / Darren Wershler -- Strayhorn's queer arrangements / Lisa Barg -- What's love got to do with it? Creating art, creating community, creating a better world / Tracey Nicholls -- Improvisation in New Wave cinema : beneath the myth, the social / Marion Froger, translated by William Straw -- Social aesthetics and transcultural improvisation : Wayde Compton and the performance of Black time / Winfried Siemerling -- Devices of existence : contact improvisation, mobile performances, and dancing through Twitter / Susan Kozel -- The dramaturgy of spontaneity : improvising the social in theater / Zoë Svendsen.
Summary: Addressing a diverse set of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and literature-this volume traces how the social, political, and the aesthetic relate within the context of improvisation.
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After relational aesthetics : improvised music, the social, and (re)theorizing the aesthetic / Georgina Born -- Scripting social interaction : improvisation, performance, and Western "art" music / Nicholas Cook -- From the American civil rights movement to Mali : reflections on social aesthetics and improvisation / Ingrid Monson -- From network bands to ubiquitous computing : Rich Gold and the social aesthetics of interactivity / George E. Lewis -- The social aesthetics of swing in the 1940s : or the distribution of the non-sensible / David Brackett -- What is "great Black music"? The social aesthetics of the AACM in Paris / Eric Lewis -- Kenneth Goldsmith and uncreative improvisation / Darren Wershler -- Strayhorn's queer arrangements / Lisa Barg -- What's love got to do with it? Creating art, creating community, creating a better world / Tracey Nicholls -- Improvisation in New Wave cinema : beneath the myth, the social / Marion Froger, translated by William Straw -- Social aesthetics and transcultural improvisation : Wayde Compton and the performance of Black time / Winfried Siemerling -- Devices of existence : contact improvisation, mobile performances, and dancing through Twitter / Susan Kozel -- The dramaturgy of spontaneity : improvising the social in theater / Zoë Svendsen.

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Addressing a diverse set of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and literature-this volume traces how the social, political, and the aesthetic relate within the context of improvisation.

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